Dirten
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Dirten is an adjective meaning (ambitransitive, now chiefly Uganda) To make or become dirty or soiled.
Meaning
(ambitransitive, now chiefly Uganda) To make or become dirty or soiled.
More Meanings
- (dialectal) Dirty; filthy
- (dialectal) Made of dirt
Example Sentences
a dirten floor
"May I wash her and change her dress before you take her? She always hated being dirty," I said remembering how Pauline used to cry if she fell down and dirtened her dress or socks.
Word Forms
- dirtens
- dirtening
- dirtened
Synonyms for dirten
Depending on context, synonyms include bedirty, gunk, stain, assoil, beclart, bedaub.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dorty, darty, durty, dreich, dern, dutty.
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